What's puzzling is that there appears to be two unrelated entities,
Hurricane Electric and Hurricane Interactive Technologies, having class 35
registrations relating to online advertising (although assignment
information is sometimes out of date). hurricane.com appears to be about,
well, hurricanes.
HURRICANE ELECTRIC
Status: REGISTERED Date: 03/04/1997
Gds/Svcs: Int'l. Cl.: 35 (U.S. Cl.: 100, 101, 102)
PROMOTING THE GOODS AND SERVICES OF OTHERS BY PREPARING AND PLACING
ADVERTISEMENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE ACCESSED THROUGH EITHER A LOCAL
COMPUTER NETWORK OR A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK
First Use: 12/1991 In Commerce: 12/1991
Int'l. Cl.: 37 (U.S. Cl.: 100, 103, 106)
INSTALLATION OF COMPUTER NETWORKS; INSTALLATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS; AND
MAINTENANCE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE
First Use: 12/1991 In Commerce: 12/1991
Int'l. Cl.: 42 (U.S. Cl.: 100, 101)
PROVIDING MULTIPLE-USER ACCESS TO EITHER LOCAL OR GLOBAL COMPUTER
INFORMATION
NETWORKS FOR THE TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION OF A WIDE VARIETY OF
INFORMATION;
COMPUTER SITE DESIGN; LEASING ACCESS TIME TO COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS;
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; LOADING OF COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR OTHERS; AND
UP-DATING
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
First Use: 12/1991 In Commerce: 12/1991
Reg. No.: 2,064,744 Registered: 05/27/1997
Serial No.: 75-058553 Filed: 02/15/1996 Published: 03/04/1997
Disclaims: "ELECTRIC"
Corresp.: TERRY MCHUGH
SCHNECK & MCHUGH
P.O. BOX 2-E
SAN JOSE, CA 95109-0005
Registrant: LEBER, MIKE, DBA HURRICANE ELECTRIC (UNITED STATES CITIZEN)
3433 ROCKETT DRIVE
FREMONT, CA 94538
HURRICANE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Status: REGISTERED Date: 02/04/1997
Gds/Svcs: Int'l. Cl.: 35 (U.S. Cl.: 100, 101, 102)
DISSEMINATION OF ADVERTISING FOR OTHERS VIA AN ON-LINE ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
First Use: 03/20/1996 In Commerce: 03/20/1996
Reg. No.: 2,057,120 Registered: 04/29/1997
Serial No.: 75-079979 Filed: 03/28/1996 Published: 02/04/1997
Disclaims: "INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES"
Corresp.: HURRICANE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC
101 FIFTH AVE 11TH FL
NEW YORK NY 10003
Registrant: HURRICANE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (NY CORP.)
101 FIFTH AVENUE
11TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10003
Assignments:
Assignee: HURRICANE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC. (NY CORP.)
11TH FL, 101 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10003
Assignor: HURRICANE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (NY CORP.)
Recorded: 04/11/1997 Assigned: 04/04/1997 Reel/Fr.: 1582/0646
Action: ASSIGNS THE ENTIRE INTEREST AND GOODWILL
At 05:18 PM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Yet again, forwarded with permission.
>--
>Dan Steinberg
>
>SYNTHESIS:Law & Technology
>35, du Ravin
>Box 532, RR1 phone: (613) 794-5356
>Chelsea, Quebec fax: (819) 827-4398
>J0X 1N0 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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>Received: from cbxcs01wa (mail.cov.com [208.225.145.131])
> by mail.travel-net.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA00324
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:53:41 -0500
>Received: from C&B-Message_Server by cbxcs01wa
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>X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:50:08 -0500
>From: "Harold Feld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Yet another one
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Content-Disposition: inline
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.travel-net.com
id LAA00324
>X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
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>Please forward to IFWP
>
>More evidence of reverse domain name hijacking:
>
>http://www.internetnews.com/rumblings/0,1145,81,00.html
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